CONSTITUTION — ART. XIII.

to leas than ton thousand white inhabitants, or its territory reduced to less than
four hundred squares miles.

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SEC 2 At the election to be held for the adoption, or rejection of this Con-
stitution, in each election district, in those parts of Worcester and Somerset
counties, comprised within the following limits, viz Beginning at the point
where Mason find Dixon's line crosses the channel of Pocomoke river, thence
following said line to the channel of the Nanticoke river, thence with the chan-
nel of Bind river to Tangier Bound, or the intersection of Nanticoke and Wi-
comico rivers, thence up the channel of the Wicomico river to the mouth of
Wicomico creek, thence with the channel of said creek and Passerdyke creek
to Dashield's or Disharoon's mills, thence with the mill-pond of said mills and
branch following the middle prong of said branch, to Meadow bridge, on the
road dividing the counties of Somerset and Worcester, near the southwest
corner of the farm of William P Morns, thence due east to the Pocomoke
river, thence with the channel of said river to the beginning, the judges of
election, in each of said districts, shall receive the ballots of each elector, voting
at said election, who has resided for six months preceding said election within
said limits, for or against a new county; and the return judges of said election
districts shall certify the result of such voting, in the manner now prescribed

Wicomico
county
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Boundaries

bylaw, to the governor, who shall by proclamation make known the same, and
if a majority of the legal votes, cast within that part of Worcester county, con-
tained within said lines, and also a majority of the legal votes cast within that
part of Somerset county, contained within said lines, shall be in favor of a new
county, the said parts of Worcester and Somerset counties shall become and

Governor's
proclamation

constitute a new county, to be called Wicomico county; and Salisbury shall be
the county seat And the inhabitants thereof shall thenceforth have and enjoy
all such rights and privileges as are held and enjoyed by the inhabitants of the
other counties of this State.

Salisbury the
county seat

SEC 3 When said new county shall have been so created, the inhabitants
thereof shall cease to have any claim to, or interest in the county buildings,
and other public property of every description, belonging to said counties of
Somerset and Worcester, respectively, and shall be liable for their proportion-
ate shares of the then existing debts and obligations of the said counties, accord-
ing to the last assessment in said counties, to be ascertained and apportioned by
the Circuit Court of Somerset county, as to the debts and obligations of said
county, and by the Circuit Court of Worcester county, as to the debts and ob-
ligations of Worcester county, on the petition of the county commissioners of
the said counties, respectively j and the property in each part of the said coun-
ties, included in said new county, shall be bound only for the share of the debts
and obligations of the county from which it shall be separated, and the inhabi-

Division of
debts and
obligations.

tants of said new county shall also pay the county taxes, levied upon them at
the time of the creation of such new county, as if such new county hod not been
created; and on the application of twelve citizens of the proposed county of
Wicomico, the surveyor of Worcester county shall run and locate the line from
Meadow bridge to the Pocomoke river, previous to the adoption or rejection
of this Constitution, and at the expense of said petitioners

Taxes.

SEC 4. At the first general election, held under this Constitution, the quali-
fied voters of said new county shall be entitled to elect a senator, and two dele-
gates to the General Assembly, and all such county, or other officers as this
Constitution may authorize, or require to be elected by other counties of the
State, a notice of such election shall be given by the sheriffs of Worcester and
Somerset counties in the manner now prescribed by law; and in case said new
county shall be established, as aforesaid, then the counties of Somerset and
Worcester shall be entitled to elect but two delegates each to the General As-
sembly.

Senators and
delegates of
Wicomico,
Somerset, and.
Worcester